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Call for entries: onedotzero 2008/09

onedotzero is extending an international call for submissions to receive visually progressive moving image work for their 2008/09 global touring festival.

Deadline: 18th July 2008

The festival is a visual ideas lab revealing future directions in motion, featuring new and specifically commissioned works; liberating talent to present new moving image possibilities and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration across all aspects of moving image and other complementary artforms.

This year’s programme will bring the best of previous programme strands alongside new categories and activities based on the theme of citystates, which will engage audiences, industry and media with an in-depth exploration of city life, insights and culture.

onedotzero are looking for direct responses to the themes and categories listed below.

Submission themes

Core programmes: central to our ethos; explorations of new creative expression, visionary moving image and progressive visual ideas. Categories that are open to submissions include:
  • Wow + flutter: the vital force and driving impulse of onedotzero, the pioneering home for exploring motion graphics, motion typography, visual code, processing, animation, enhanced digital and short experimental works
  • Wavelength: dedicated to exploring innovative, visually progressive music videos and rarely screened promos and unofficial versions.
  • Extended play: a select international programme of critically acclaimed, digitally inflected short films and animations, which extend way beyond the boundaries of traditional storytelling and style
  • J-star: the latest survey of music videos, motion graphics and shorts from some of japan’s finest moving image-makers and young talent.
New categories: onedotzero is developing new categories based around the overarching theme of citystates: onedotzero seeks inspired views of contemporary city culture based on the following:
  • innovative moving image work that explores the collisions, myths, rela tionships, sensory overloads, and multiple layerings of contemporary city life, within individual, the communal and global contexts
  • evocative interpretations of all types of terrain, environments, architecture
  • urban street art and graffiti
  • thought provoking work that targets social, environmental, and political concerns and issues.
Other: onedotzero is also interested in receiving proposals for installations, interactive works and live performance in addition to single screen works and explorations of typography for current and future plans for current and future project plans.

Festival details
  • premieres at onedotzero_buenos aires, argentina: 26-28 september 2008
  • onedotzero_ch, zurich, switzerland: tba october 2008
  • the extensive global tour will continue across the uk, europe, asia, the baltics, the americas and oceania.
Festival content
  • curated compilation screenings
  • exhibitions
  • installations and interventions
  • debates and discussions
  • live audiovisual performances
Deadline: 18th July 2008

For more details see DFGDocs/Festivals

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